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"That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror."
"Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice."
"A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt."
"The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain."
"Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice."
"It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best."
"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall."
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
"It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us."
"Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing."
"I found myself within a forest dark."
"We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it."
"From there we came outside and saw the stars"
"So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth."
"If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!"
"That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit."
"Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow."
"Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame."
"There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge."
"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame."